You Deserve Better

"I thought you didn't work today. Why are you getting ready for work?" Yolei's sisterMomoe asked.

"Because when I left early last night, Katie took over for me, so I have to take her shift tonight." Yolei replied as she threw clothes out of her dresser drawer.

"Why did you leave work?"Momoe asked as one of Yolei's T-shirts landed on her head, she quickly pulled it off her head and started folding it.

"None of your business, Momoe" Yolei said in a rather annoyed voice.

"Is it a boy?"Momoe asked curiously as she looked up from the magazine she was reading.

Yolei stayed silent as she looked through her dresser drawer.

"Yolei has a boyfriend" She teased.

"He's not my boyfriend" Yolei yelled.

Momoe burst into a fit of giggles. "So it is a boy" Momoe smiled.
"Is he like you high school crush" she laughed again.

"Momoe, he's not a crush, he's...... he's-" Yolei looked back into her closet. "Never mind, it's not important" She said as she picked up a blue and black sweater.

"He's the boy you're in love with"Momoe pretended to look dreamily into space, before she started to laugh again.

That pretty much explains it. Yolei thought to herself.

"I've got to go to work Momoe" Yolei put the sweater on and grabbed a jean jacket "So you have to get out of my room." Yolei said as she grabbedMomoe's wrist and pulled her out of the room.

Yolei grabbed her shoes and sat on the couch.

"So who is he?" Momoe asked

"Remember Ken Ichijoji?" Yolei asked as she tied her shoelace.

"Yeah, blue hair, right?" Momoe asked

"Yes, that's him well last night Ken came to the restaurant, and it turns out he broke up with his girlfriend" She said as tied her other shoelace.

"And with his girlfriend out of the picture, you can be with him right?"Momoe asked.

"You watch too much TV" Yolei said before she closed the door.

Yolei walked into the restaurant she took off her jacket. And walked over to the till, they had a piece of paper that said who had which tables that night.

"Table six......table seven..... table three....... Table....one........ and table five...." Yolei said quietly to herself

"I'll take table five if you want"

Yolei recognized the voice, she turned around to see ken standing there.

"Ken, what are you doing here?" She asked

"I work here" Ken pointed to the name tag. "See"

Ken and Yolei started laughing. "Why would you get a job here" Yolei asked.

"I could use the extra cash and you're here" Ken said as he picked up a pen and a calculator to figure out the total cost of the cheque he had in his hand.

"Big deal if I'm here" Yolei said as she put on her apron.

"We're on close-up" Ken said as put the total on the cheque.

"Okay"

Yolei looked at her watch.

"Ten after nine" Yolei said to herself.

Ken put up another chair. "Can you help me?"

"Sure" Yolei put the broom against the wall

"What did you mean by and your her" Yolei said as she put up another chair

"You are fun to have around, that's all. Well you're funny and-"Ken was cut off by a large crash. "What Happened?" He asked about to laugh, He sat down beside Yolei, who was sitting on the floor.

"I dropped a chair on my toe" Yolei laughed

"Are you okay?" Ken laughed.

"I think I broke my toe." Yolei said in a three year-old voice.

Ken burst out laughing.

"Shut-up" Yolei smiled.

Ken went closer and kissed her, Yolei didn't expect it. She felt the kiss deepen, not knowing what to do, she quickly pulled away.

"I'm sorry.......... I have to go..... home" She stuttered . She quickly got up, put on her shoes, grabbed her jacket and ran out the door.

Ken just sat there, sort of confused by her reaction.